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Labette, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67356. The Survey maps it on the Labette quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Labette within Labette County

Population over time

2 figures

Labette fell from 78 to 50 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201078
202050-28 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Labette between 2015 and 2018, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service180034
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service180027
15 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service22
12 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKansas Forest Service21
3 February 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service180007
24 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLabette County170016
19 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLabette County170012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Labette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Labette: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oswego MineLead, ZincProspect1968
Parsons Quarry & Mill No.3Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Labette County

Storms near this place

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Labette in 18 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLabette$20,000A house had a partially collapsed roof, with the roof blown off of a machine shed. Also, numerous trees were reported down.
July 2020HailLabette-The report was received via Twitter.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLabette-A significant amount of tree damage was noted and a hay shed was destroyed. The report is from Twitter.
May 2019Flash FloodLabette-Water was reported flowing over Highway 59 and was 8 inches deep for about one eighth of a mile.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Labette-A brief touchdown occurred in open country and was 75 yards wide. It was observed by the Emergency Manager and a storm chasers video.
May 2013Flash FloodLabette-Several county roads were reported as under water and impassable.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLabette-Several tree limbs were blown down.
May 2011HailLabette-no account filed
May 2011HailLabette-no account filed
May 2011HailLabette-no account filed
May 2011HailLabette-no account filed
July 2009HailLabette-no account filed
May 2008HailLabette-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLabette-no account filed
April 2003HailLabette-no account filed
May 2003HailLabette-no account filed
May 2003HailLabette-no account filed
July 2003HailLabette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Labette County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Garvin1.0 miles20
Stover4.0 miles20
Montana4.4 miles18
Oswego5.8 miles20
Altamont6.6 miles18
Brownstone7.1 miles18
Winway7.7 miles19
Laneville7.7 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LabetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666681The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 469451. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.